In the last hundred years, lung cancer has risen from a reportable disease to the most
common cause of death from cancer in both men and women in developed countries (1) …

The availability of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) is increasing rapidly in the
developed world (1). This article reviews the role of PET scanning in lung cancer …

PET-CT imaging merges metabolic data obtained after injection of a tracer labelled with a
positron emitter, with CT anatomical data. This whole-body technique provides (i) an …

Purpose Our group has previously reported on the use of 68 Ga-ventilation/perfusion (VQ)
PET/CT scanning for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. We describe here the …

Approximately 170,000 people arediagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each
year. Manyof these patients receive external beam radiation for treatment. Fluorine-18 2 …

This article discusses the role of PET/CT in contributing to precision medicine in lung cancer,
and provides the perspective of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging …

2-deoxy-2-(18Fluorine)-fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) PET/CT is an integral part of lung carcinoma
staging and frequently used in the assessment of solitary pulmonary nodules. However, a …

Positron emission tomography (PET) has been in existence and continuously developing
over the past 20 years. In the last few years steady advances in the technology used for PET …

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: FDG-PET Imaging Page 1 Journal of Thoracic lmaging 14:247–256
O 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Inc. Philadelphia Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: FDG-PET …

Carcinoma of the lung is one of the most frequent malignancies and a major cause of
mortality. The use of positron emission tomography (PET) has been extensively investigated …